{"id":651,"date":"2016-06-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/http:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/hearing-ruslan-kotsaba-ukrainian-prisoner-of-conscience-january-2016-2\/"},"modified":"2019-03-26T13:03:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T11:03:14","slug":"hearing-ruslan-kotsaba-ukrainian-prisoner-of-conscience-january-2016-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/hearing-ruslan-kotsaba-ukrainian-prisoner-of-conscience-january-2016-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing: Ruslan Kotsaba \u2013 Ukrainian prisoner of conscience (January 2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>A hearing to consider the case of imprisoned Ukrainian journalist and blogger Ruslan Kotsaba will take place in the European Parliament on Tuesday 26 January 2016, from 14:00 to 15:30 in room ASP 5E1, organised by Latvian MEP Tatjana \u017ddanoka.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian journalist, blogger and Maidan activist Ruslan Kotsaba is being prosecuted for &#8220;Betrayal of the Motherland&#8221; because of his reports on the conflict in the Donbass area.<\/p>\n<p>He has also made a public appeal against conscription. Kotsaba was arrested in Ukraine in February 2015, and his pre-trial imprisonment is regularly prolonged.<\/p>\n<p>Two days after his arrest, on 9 February 2015, Amnesty International called upon the Ukrainian Government to free the journalist and described Kotsaba as a prisoner of conscience.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ms Tetiana Montian (Ukraine), legal representative of Ruslan Kotsaba<\/li>\n<li>Mr Denis Krivosheev, Regional deputy programme director (ECA) of Amnesty International<\/li>\n<li>Mr Adrien Collin, project officer at the International Federation of Journalists<\/li>\n<li>Ms Katherine Morris, head of Europe and Central Asia of Article 19<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hearing to consider the case of imprisoned Ukrainian journalist and blogger Ruslan Kotsaba will take place in the European Parliament on Tuesday 26 January 2016, from 14:00 to 15:30 in room ASP 5E1, organised by Latvian MEP Tatjana \u017ddanoka. The Ukrainian journalist, blogger and Maidan activist Ruslan Kotsaba is being prosecuted for &#8220;Betrayal of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eu-parliament-work","category-our-mer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}